can you sum up the ways they did get affected? this is a first for me to hear that in Leninakan there was a family that was not majorly affected by the earthquake...

Well, their house was not seriously damaged and they were not made homeless by the earthquake. That's what I meant. Other than that, I personally do not know what kind of an impact the earthquake because I don't know anyone else from Leninakan. All of my family in Armenia lives in Yerevan.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met Monday with members of the National Assembly of France, Chairman of the France-Armenia Friendship Group Francois Rochebloine and Vice-Chairman Rene Rouquet, who have arrived in Armenia to attend commemoration events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the 1988 earthquake, the RA leader’s press office told PanARMENIAN.Net. Thanking France for the earthquake relief efforts, President Sargsyan hailed the activities of the French parliamentarians and informed that he has signed a decree to award Francois Rochebloine and Rene Rouquet with the Order of Honor for the aid they rendered to Armenia after the devastating earthquake of 1988 and for their continued efforts for strengthening friendly relations between the peoples of Armenia and France. Receiving the award Mr. Rochebloine said it encourages him for greater efforts while Mr. Rouquet described the award as acknowledgment of his twenty-year long activities. The parties also referred to the prospects of bilateral economic and political relations and cooperation within international organizations.

Consider that it took no more than 5 years for Russia to rebuild after the most destructive war in history. It's been twenty years since the earthquake and parts of Leninakan are still in rubble; tens of thousands of victims are still homeless. Such facts are attributable to criminal negligence on the part of the bourgeois gangsters in the current "government".

Consider that it took no more than 5 years for Russia to rebuild after the most destructive war in history. It's been twenty years since the earthquake and parts of Leninakan are still in rubble; tens of thousands of victims are still homeless. Such facts are attributable to criminal negligence on the part of the bourgeois gangsters in the current "government".

As for my experiences until 10 years old: I wouldn't trade them in the world. It's made me the grateful person that I am for every single day that I live. I don't take anything for granted, most of all the warm food and hot showers that I have the privilege to enjoy.

As for my experiences until 10 years old: I wouldn't trade them in the world. It's made me the grateful person that I am for every single day that I live. I don't take anything for granted, most of all the warm food and hot showers that I have the privilege to enjoy.

Consider that it took no more than 5 years for Russia to rebuild after the most destructive war in history. It's been twenty years since the earthquake and parts of Leninakan are still in rubble; tens of thousands of victims are still homeless. Such facts are attributable to criminal negligence on the part of the bourgeois gangsters in the current "government".

Considering that it took the comunist government less than 5 years to rebuild the entire union after the war, it should have taken no more than 2 years (WHICH THEY HAD) to rebuild GYUMRI.

Twenty-one years ago, on December 7, a devastating earthquake ripped through Armenia leveling to the ground 40 per cent of the country's territory in a matter of seconds. It struck at 11:41 local time when children were at school and most people at work. According to official data, up to 25 000 people died of the calamity. The earthquake measuring 6, 9 on the Richter scale hit 21 towns and 342 villages. About 514 000 people were left homeless. The force of the epicenter (town of Spitak with neighboring 12 villages) was 10. 21 years have passed ever since but the expression "calamity zone" is still preserved in our lexicon